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by Bryan L. Jones
Bryan Jones is that rare thing, a real farmer who also writes. The Farming Game is the one book I've seen that I would give to someone who was thinking of moving to the country and actually supporting himself or herself off the land.
Bryan Jones is that rare thing, a real farmer who also writes. Anyone who picks it up stop laughing. First at the dozen portraits of different types of farmers. Then at various barbed asides in the three long essays on how farmers can and do make money. Jones has a wicked wit. book is remarkably educative. Mixed with the humor is a mass of information and analysis
The Farming Game book. In cantankerous opinions, hard-headed advice, and free-swinging sketches of real farmers, Bryan Jones addresses everyone who feels the pull of the land
The Farming Game book. In cantankerous opinions, hard-headed advice, and free-swinging sketches. In cantankerous opinions, hard-headed advice, and free-swinging sketches of real farmers, Bryan Jones addresses everyone who feels the pull of the land. He accepts the emotional appeal of going back to the land and then takes the unconventional stand that, above all, farming can be a good way to make money.
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In cantankerous opinions, hard-headed advice, and free-swinging sketches of real farmers, Bryan Jones addresses everyone who feels the pull of the land. He accepts the emotional appeal of "going back to the land" and then takes the unconventional stand that, above all, farming can be a good way to make money.
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But Jones’s world is not one of sentimental nostalgia; running battles with town bullies, sobering encounters with religious . Jones teaches reading at McCook Junior High School in McCook, Nebraska. He is the author of The Farming Game (Nebraska 1982).
But Jones’s world is not one of sentimental nostalgia; running battles with town bullies, sobering encounters with religious buffoons, and an impressive collection of pedagogues specializing in violent corporal punishment capture the earthy essence of a world now largely disappeared. Библиографические данные. Mark Twain Made Me Do It and Other Plains Adventures. U of Nebraska Press, 2018.
This button opens a dialog that displays additional images for this product with the option to zoom in or out. Tell us if something is incorrect. What distinguishes The Farming Game from a mere how-to book is the author's sharp eye for the absurd detail in his portraits of people and his descriptions of the lending policies of banks, the government price controls and the production methods of agribusiness that make it difficult for the independent farmer to compete". Bryan Jones is that rare thing, a real farmer who also writes.
His keen-eyed sketches of farmers at work show the variety of ways a farmer may succeed or fail. Even his own neighborhood, dominated by thousands of acres of corn and high technology, is peopled with “scalper” who makes a living in the cattle business with little more stake than a gooseneck trailer, a telephone, and his native wits; the sheep man who secretly grows rich while looking poor and raising an animal that other farmer disdain; the experimenter who never turns a nickel himself, but whose successful innovations are readily adopted by his neighbors; the hog raiser who makes a large family pay.
The heart of the book is the primer for novices—and for city folk who dream of farming. Jones emphasizes the practicalities of farm finance and recommends sidelines for the beginner—welding, giving guitar lessons, keeping the books for a local elevator—as an alternative to starving. He urges newcomers to start small and to be sure that farming is something they really want to do. To interested bystanders, The Farming Game offers one farmer’s audacious, stimulating, and entertaining view of American agriculture today.
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